Updated 11:28 am, Saturday, September 7, 2013

Yaddo announced a double first Saturday as the arts organization will be led by two former guest artists serving as co-chairs.

A.M. Homes, an author, and Susan Unterberg, a photographer, will lead the artists community together, the first time the chairmanship has been shared.

Homes' and Unterberg's leadership took over from outgoing chairman Peter C. Gould, at The Corporation of Yaddo annual meeting held here Saturday morning. Yaddo made the change public in an announcement released at noon.

Gould is an intellectual property attorney from New York City. He led Yaddo for the past decade.

"It has been both a distinct privilege and a delightful pleasure to serve in the leadership position of the wonderful and important cultural asset that is Yaddo, whose century of service to the creative process is unmatchable," Gould said in a statement.

"After a decade in the position as Yaddo's chair, I am honoring the principle of term limits to refresh our board," Gould continued.

Homes is a novelist, short story writer and author of memoirs. She teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University.

Homes received the 2013 International Women's Prize for fiction for her novel "May We Be Forgiven.

"Without Yaddo I wouldn't exist as a writer. Yaddo gives artists the increasingly rare gift of a time and place to do one's work, suspended from the intrusive buzz of the every day," Homes said in a statement.

"Besides giving me a place to work and grow as an artist, Yaddo provides an unparalleled opportunity for cross pollination of the arts," Unterberg said in a statement.

Yaddo President Elaina Richardson said the leadership change occurs as the organization moves into its second century.

Homes and Unterberg "take the helm at an exciting time for Yaddo as we work to ensure a vibrant second century, building a version of Yaddo that is an invigorated, burnished, reiteration of the Trask's original, inspired ideal," Richardson said.